#1992 - Oliver Stone

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[3] Yeah, I have been fascinated by the subject for a long time, and I'm very, very happy that you made this documentary, and it's a very good documentary, by the way.

[4] Thank you for making it, and thank you for highlighting this very, very important issue that seems to have been really confused, and I'm really glad how you covered it in this documentary about three mile island in Chernobyl and Fukushima we have these ideas in our mind about the dangers of nuclear power and i love the analogy that you made in the film about how driving a car is not scary but it's dangerous flying in a plane feel scary but it's far safer yeah and this is a great analogy to nuclear power when you went over the the data when you talked about the amount of deaths for from coal every year.

[5] When you talk about the amount of deaths overall ever from nuclear, it's stunning.

[6] It is.

[7] It's stunning.

[8] And then when you cut to, in the documentary you showed the anti -nuclear movement that happened after Three Mile Island.

[9] Yeah.

[10] And how crazy it was.

[11] It's all these stars and celebrities and they're doing concerts.

[12] We've got to stop nuclear power and what a mess.

[13] That happens when a fad, I mean, becomes fashionable.

[14] that it was very successful movement.

[15] You're talking about the negatives here and the accidents and we cover all that in the film which is called nuclear now and the idea that was behind it was because I really was like you I went along with those things in the 70s and the 80s because I didn't know better I wasn't educated I really wanted to know what is nuclear power?

[16] I wanted to go back to the source and you've got to go back to the beginning And you've got to go back to Marie Curie and Albert Einstein and World War II and all, how it got developed.

[17] This nuclear energy is a beautiful, incredible, almost a miracle that was given to us.

[18] We have an earth.

[19] It's all, it's in the earth, uranium.

[20] It's everywhere, the planet, the earth, the sun.

[21] And we, in a sense, we took it like Prometheus and we kind of misinterpreted it, misused it, which is not.

[22] not, which is kind of normal for giving what we do with natural things.

[23] World War II was happening just as the, as the nuclear fission was being understood.

[24] And that made the bomb.

[25] They made the bomb with it because there was a war on it.

[26] They rushed it and they did an amazing job, Oppenheimer, down in Los Alamos.

[27] But, and they got it.

[28] And they were successful.

[29] But, as you know, it was misunderstood at that point that nuclear energy was not nuclear bomb.

[30] In the contrary, a bomb is very difficult to build, and it takes years sometimes.

[31] It takes scientists, and they have to enrich the plutonium, and they have to work at it.

[32] There's all configurations in the bomb that don't exist in nuclear energy.

[33] So when people see a nuclear energy plant, they subconsciously, they cross it with both war, and they cross it with horror films that they've seen in the 1950s with radioactivity and monsters that come out of that.

[34] You know, the spider bites the man and you become Spider -Man.

[35] It's incredible, the stuff that happens.

[36] And it's all, and Hollywood has done no favors to it.

[37] It's continued for years and years and years.

[38] And then, of course, you had a three -mile island.

[39] The film was coming out at the same time.

[40] China Syndrome with Jane Fonda.

[41] It was a good film.

[42] I enjoyed it.

[43] We all enjoyed it, but it really was hysterical and alarmist, saying nothing happened at Three Mile Island, except the reactor did melt down, but nobody got hurt because the containment structure worked to keep it in, to keep it in.

[44] So there was no lease of radiation, and they continued on.

[45] Silkwood was another one, and then if you remember, not too long ago, there was the HBO thing, Chernobyl, which was a complete fictionalization.

[46] of what happened at Chernobyl.

[47] So we went to Russia and we talked to the scientists there and we wanted to know what happened at Chernobyl and we find out that it's in the film.

[48] And the same thing is true for Fukushima, which is unbelievable because when you go to the bottom of it, I was astounded to find out that nobody died there from radiation.

[49] Not one Japanese.

[50] They checked the whole thing out and it's been done to death.

[51] But you hear about 15, 20 ,000 people died from the tsunami and the earthquake, which was the biggest earthquake Japan ever had.

[52] I mean, really, we show the earthquake, we show the tsunami, the wave was 100 feet tall.

[53] There was a badly built wall.

[54] The wall was not a seawall that could hold, and the generators were flooded beneath the water.

[55] And these were also not state -of -the -art.

[56] That's right.

[57] It's like what they can do now in terms of these.

[58] power plants.

[59] everything gets better.

[60] I mean, But even those nuclear reactors built 60, 70 years ago are still functioning.

[61] Their legacy reactors, they do work.

[62] Yeah.

[63] And we mustn't dismiss them.

[64] Yeah, it gets better.

[65] Technology gets better.

[66] As in any business, there's another generation and it's better, hopefully better.

[67] But the point was that they could avoid what happened in Fukushima today.

[68] Oh, Fukushima was if you look at closely, Japan had built 20 -some reactors at that point and this one is the only the others were exposed to the same earthquake and the same kind of tsunami.

[69] Several of them were on that same coastline.

[70] But this particular one, this plant, was the only one that was shaken up.

[71] And even then, all the radiation that was released, there was a hydrogen explosion.

[72] All the explosion, that radiation released in the air.

[73] You heard about it.

[74] It was supposed to be another terrible.

[75] Well, we have shots in the film showing they're taking tests on all the Japanese citizens and nobody can, you know, it's low level, what they call low level radiation, which is we can sustain it.

[76] We have DNA in our body that fixes, repairs our body as each day goes by.

[77] But it's also, you point out very well in the film that there's a lot of radiation that you don't even take any consideration that you encounter constantly.

[78] We have this idea of radiation as being a net negative.

[79] It's a terrible thing.

[80] But it's just a thing.

[81] You get it from being outside.

[82] You get it from rocks.

[83] You get it from all sorts of things.

[84] There's radiation in this room.

[85] You get radiation from eating a banana.

[86] I think what you said is so true that films and comic books and are fictions of radiation.

[87] That's part of the problem.

[88] Yeah, that started early.

[89] It's a giant problem.

[90] Comic books and all that.

[91] It plays to the worst aspects of human nature, which is we just love to get terrified about headlines so we don't read into the devil of the details.

[92] Exactly.

[93] That's what was confusing to me, and really we're miseducated.

[94] And there is still a bias against nuclear, if you mention it to anybody.

[95] Yeah, it's scary instantly.

[96] Yeah, but the point is we can live with it, and we have to because we're facing, We're facing a very difficult situation, a cliff that we're going to go over.

[97] And it seems that no one's really getting it.

[98] So that's why I felt like the film, I wanted to know.

[99] I need to educate myself.

[100] So in doing the film, I think I was able to bring out these things.

[101] You talk about what is wrong with nuclear energy.

[102] It can work.

[103] It is a miracle.

[104] We should use it.

[105] And we should use it abundantly.

[106] The Chinese and the Russians are way ahead of us.

[107] They built it, and they built it with government backing, not like the U .S. where we kind of back it, but we don't really back it.

[108] So as a result, well, China's really cutting out now because they have about 70 reactors, approximately 70 reactors, yeah, about 74, I think.

[109] Anyway, they're building, and I've heard, I can't, I don't remember the source, but I did hear that they're putting another $140 billion.

[110] into this thing, which means that they're going to build 150 -some reactors over the next by 2038.

[111] That is a serious investment.

[112] Serious investment.

[113] Wow.

[114] That's a serious investment that would take a long time for us to catch up to.

[115] It's not about competing.

[116] Right, but if we wanted to do what they're doing right now, even if it's not competing, just to be current.

[117] Yeah.

[118] So they're the leader right now.

[119] Well, no, we're the biggest country in the world.

[120] We still have 90 -some reactors online.

[121] So China's climate goals hinge on a $440 billion nuclear build -out.

[122] That's interesting.

[123] So we still have more, even with all the negative stereotypes about nuclear reactors, planning at least 150 new reactors in the next 15 years.

[124] More than the rest of the world has built in the past 35.

[125] Wow.

[126] I'm surprised you remember.

[127] No, it just says it right there, the article.

[128] Jamie just had it pulled up.

[129] China has, wow, you've got a system worked out.

[130] Yeah, Jamie's the wizard.

[131] Look at him over there.

[132] He's the best.

[133] He doesn't know what the film is about, even.

[134] This article that you just pulled up, Jamie, this is from Bloomberg.

[135] Jesus Christ.

[136] Yeah.

[137] Well, you see, you got the source right away.

[138] Yeah, and this is from 2021.

[139] This whole thing is exactly how you lay it out in the film.

[140] It's almost like we have to cure ourselves.

[141] of these misconceptions and if we don't we're screwed China's building man they don't fuck around now they have a lot of coal they still build they're still building coal plants because they have a huge demand and they have to get off the coal that is crucial because they are completely contaminating the atmosphere as well the more nuclear they build the better it will be the contamination from coal is terrifying we showed a documentary that had been done do you remember the documentary no but I remember it was it was a A documentary, it was all about, one of the things that was highlighting is all the people that live around these plants and the air quality that they suffer.

[142] It's insane.

[143] Their cars are covered with like a thin film of, you know, all the particulates in the atmosphere.

[144] That's correct.

[145] It's horrible.

[146] They estimate from air pollution alone, I've read figures of four million deaths a year.

[147] It's just so many, you need so many cases of, you know, respiratory illnesses and it's horrible i want to say four million a year from air pollution but one million at least from coal a year that's what i've seen but there could be more coal in the so it's and who knows what the the health negatives are on top of that like how many people are suffering with illnesses and ailments because of those particulates especially around those reactors or the plants rather.

[148] It's horrible.

[149] Well, we still have coal in the U .S. Yeah.

[150] No, this was in the U .S. This was in Indiana, correct?

[151] Oh, yeah.

[152] No, they have coal everywhere.

[153] I mean, President Trump said Trump digs coal.

[154] I dig coal.

[155] He said clean coal once.

[156] It was just like, what the fuck are you saying?

[157] The fuck are you saying?

[158] Cleaner than what?

[159] The other lighting tires?

[160] Now, the other truth that we miss is gas we know how ugly the oil thing is I mean there's the waste and all the oil and this fossil fuel itself is destroying the universe because we're putting carbon into the atmosphere CO2 but gas is considered they're using gas everywhere even it seems like a modern thing they say well renewables which are solar and wind Those are, we're all for that.

[161] I want wind, we want solar.

[162] But they don't work all the time.

[163] They run out in winter at night.

[164] Is it also a problem with battery technology when it comes to those things?

[165] Well, that's part of it too.

[166] But the point is when they run out, what they need is gas backup.

[167] It's backup.

[168] You see, nuclear doesn't need storage and it doesn't need backup.

[169] What's the beauty of it?

[170] It's a real clean energy.

[171] And gas does, I mean, renewables do need backup, and that backup is gas.

[172] So it's not 100 % like, one of the issues is about storage, the waste.

[173] Yeah.

[174] And when you talked about just the size of the amount of storage, it's not nearly as much as a lot of people think it is.

[175] Oh, the amount of, all the waste that America has used up to now in the last, since the 19, 58, whenever shipping port was built, has amounts to about the size of Walmart, frankly.

[176] You could put it in a Walmart.

[177] In other words, people make a big deal about waste, but they don't realize that it's so intensive, an energy, huge amount of energy that it's, how do you say, compact as a result.

[178] So it fits into, if waste itself is a positive about nuclear, because first of all, there's been no harm done.

[179] So it's been buried in casks, and first of all, it goes into water for maybe two, three years, and that's a conductor that takes the radioactivity down, and then it gets put into casks that are 12 to 14 feet.

[180] They build these casks in the United States.

[181] They're concrete and steel.

[182] Concrete is a great, does not conduct radio.

[183] activity.

[184] Concrete stops it.

[185] So concrete and steel casks work.

[186] They can go for 100 years and then you can do another 100 years.

[187] And then eventually, eventually you realize that radioactivity drops each time.

[188] In four or five years, it's way down.

[189] It tops to almost, if you, I don't have all the figures, but you can see that it's a ridiculous fear compared to what, given climate change is so dangerous.

[190] And compared to the deaths that are already occurring every year just from using the methods we have now, in comparison to the amount of people that died from nuclear, it's very, very small.

[191] Well, the only people who have died from nuclear that we know have are returnable.

[192] There was 50 first responders who died in the actual, they were the badly protected.

[193] They were sent in by a corrupt and decaying Soviet government.

[194] And then they were hiding the fact that there was a leak.

[195] The radioactivity went all over northern Europe.

[196] And still, it was not that what we think it is.

[197] It's not like Hiroshima or Nagasaki.

[198] It wasn't that enriched kind of radiation.

[199] It was a low -level radiation that exists that went out there.

[200] And they went out.

[201] The UN went in and the WHO went in and it was really exhaustive what they did.

[202] And they came up with a number of about 4 ,000.

[203] thousand possible deaths from cancer after Chernobyl.

[204] Now, since then, there's been another examination by another scientific organization that says that he's even in a high number.

[205] We don't really know because people die from cancer, you know, naturally.

[206] So we don't really know how bad Chernobyl was, but nothing like what has been, what the environmentalists say is the end of the world.

[207] Or the HBO series.

[208] Oh, the HBO was a disaster.

[209] I mean, it was.

[210] I didn't see it, but I heard it was.

[211] great.

[212] Yeah, it was great as tension and all that.

[213] Yeah, I make movies.

[214] I know.

[215] You can make movies out of disasters, but it's not fair.

[216] It's not fair.

[217] It's not fair.

[218] It's never had one proponent.

[219] Nobody in, that's what bothered me. Nobody said, it's a good thing as opposed to, it's this horrible beast.

[220] It's crazy that it's something like that that's right in front of our face.

[221] It's right in front of our, it's not like something that has to be invented.

[222] It's not theoretical.

[223] No. It's like, you know, again, myth.

[224] over you use your reason go scientific yeah trust the science uh which is very hard to do in a world where imagine tobacco they were sold to us is tobacco is good for you you know uh car seat belts were not necessary we have automobile safety you know all the good things that happen take they happen against the against the desire for profit yeah but even this desire for profit it's like when We're talking about like renewables.

[225] You're talking about that it's really interesting that that gets connected to green.

[226] Everyone says that's green.

[227] This is green power, green energy.

[228] But there's very little that's more green than solar.

[229] Yeah.

[230] It's never mentioned.

[231] We went to Davos with a film.

[232] And here they are, Davos, all the world's richest businessman, biggest guys, movers and shakers.

[233] They don't even have it on the agenda.

[234] They talk about clean green.

[235] this that it's amending it's maddening we had to struggle to get a screening of nuclear and we got one so in other words people know about it but they they it has to become trendy right right I mean it's almost really what has to happen it's almost like that has to become the trend of being one of the people the early adopters to recognize that nuclear is the way out of this it's a sad thing because the truth is they it worked for 70 years and it still work and The old ones work, but okay, we want new stuff.

[236] That's the American way.

[237] We always have to have a new thing because we get bored with the old thing.

[238] Oh, nuclear, I heard about that.

[239] That's dangerous, right?

[240] That's the way the reaction.

[241] So now they're building in the U .S. There are 50 new companies, 50 companies working on, 50 companies working privately with some Department of Energy help towards making SMR small modular reactors that are sleek.

[242] Great looking, and they all have different methods of working, including Natrium, including Bill Gates is there with a new company.

[243] Does this lead to nuclear power cars?

[244] Because if so, I'm in.

[245] Yeah, sure.

[246] Well, no, that's another thing.

[247] I want one of those.

[248] No, cars, transportation, that can be done with.

[249] That's another.

[250] See, it's not just electricity that has to be improved.

[251] we have to nuclearize electricity which is about a third of the problem but we still have the problems after that of internal combustion engines and aside from that heating buildings, heating offices cooking heating in general for apartments for offices and then there's the industry aspect of it concrete steel these are huge highly intensive CO2, you know, they consume a lot of carbon to make these things.

[252] And don't forget agriculture, Jesus, I mean, it sounds horrible, but ammonia is one of the worst byproducts of the ammonia is in the air.

[253] And you remember the Oklahoma bombing?

[254] Yeah.

[255] But ammonia is terrible, and what we have to do is get electrify everything, essentially.

[256] So the demand for electricity, given the whole world's coming into, Look at all the people in Africa, Asia, who are coming to want what we have.

[257] They see television.

[258] They see what Americans have.

[259] Have you gotten into regenerative farming at all and looked into that?

[260] Not really.

[261] It's something to consider.

[262] Because when you were talking about ammonium, when you're talking about just the different fertilizers and pesticides and herbicides that get put in through around.

[263] You know, I don't know if it's scalable for the entire country.

[264] That's the real problem with it.

[265] But there's people like Joel Salatin and white oak pastures that's down in Georgia.

[266] And they figured out a way to have farms where it's regenerative, where the animals are eating the grass.

[267] They're fertilizing the grass.

[268] The fertilizer, they use the fertilizer for, you know, to grow food.

[269] And they bring in these animals to these ecosystems.

[270] And they have them exist in a way that it just basically contains.

[271] nature.

[272] Yeah.

[273] It's just the way the natural cycle is, and they have a zero carbon footprint.

[274] It's essentially, everything sort of works in balance, and that's how it's supposed to happen.

[275] Yeah.

[276] And if you look, especially from White Oak Pastur, he had a video of the runoff from a rainstorm onto, from his property into the river, which is nothing, to the next door neighbor's property who runs an industrialized farm and it's a fucking disaster it's horrific to look at because you just see the topsoil's gone look at the look at the difference there's a clear line between his property on the left and the neighbor's property in the right i mean how insane is it that this is normal for us this is the problem the problem is they've gone into these monocrop agriculture situations where they plot they use the same land over and over again and they have to apply fertilizer and they have to apply herbicides and pesticides and makes it make it toxic for everything but whatever the fuck it is they're growing a lot of the stuff they're growing is genetically modified in order to be more tolerant of these pesticides and herbicides and that's not good no this is this is a major source of the problem yeah fertilizer but i can't comment on that yeah it's really interesting stuff it's obviously not my wheelhouse either but these uh people that have had to talk about it.

[277] But the point is that we're going to need, some people say, three, four, five times amount of electricity that we have now by 2050, which is the, we used 2050 as a goal mark because that's the IPCC standard.

[278] They said that by 2050, all the countries of the world have to bring down the carbon emissions to zero to zero.

[279] Now, that's going to be, it doesn't work.

[280] I mean, the green renewables are great.

[281] great idea.

[282] It made great sense when you saw Al Gore's film.

[283] But the truth is that CO2 keeps going up, not down.

[284] It's gone up since then.

[285] We've spent trillions of dollars since the 2000 period.

[286] This is 20 -some years now, and it just hasn't worked, and nobody admits it.

[287] That's what's crazy.

[288] So the only way to get the carbon dioxide out of the atmosphere is do it, do it clean, do it right now.

[289] You've got to get rid of gas and you've got to get rid of oil, basically.

[290] and you've got to be severe about it.

[291] That means you have to have an alternative, a clean, cheap, scalable alternative.

[292] And nuclear is the only one that's proven itself, proven itself for so many years.

[293] And yet nobody, it doesn't even get talked about.

[294] I mean, journalists will say, and there's nuclear, which is dangerous.

[295] When it's not dangerous, if you do it right, if you build it right and you keep it right, it's been done time and time again.

[296] It's just that one, you know, I wish there had been more accidents, and see what have really taught the lesson.

[297] Every industry has had needed accidents.

[298] I mean, when they started the railroad, they thought that your brain would get pushed back in your head because of the speed of going forward.

[299] Same thing was true with airplanes.

[300] He had more crashes before the airplane has been, you know, modified into this incredibly powerful machine.

[301] We're not going to get rid of the airplane.

[302] We're going to have to use fuel.

[303] We have to use aviation fuel, and it will come from the marriage, of hydrogen and carmen actually and it will need a lot of heat and and that heat is going to come from nuclear it's not going to come from anything else that amount of heat so we also have to take into consideration that if the population continues to grow and we're doing things the same way whatever our output is now that's damaging it's going to get worse and worse and worse there's going to be more people United States is in good shape compared to the rest of the world but look at India yeah look at look at Africa which is, I mean, people will burn wood if they have to, much less coal.

[304] I mean, they're not going to stop people from getting things, and they're going to want energy.

[305] That's going to be the prime.

[306] India is crucial.

[307] We bring it up in their film.

[308] They have some, they are doing some great nuclear work.

[309] They have 20 -some reactors in India, but they are definitely on the path of coal, like China.

[310] They're going to get, their demand is enormous for coal.

[311] So what happens?

[312] There's no luck.

[313] We can't get out of that mess.

[314] We're going to have so much pollution, so much warming that the only way we can do it is by building nuclear now.

[315] And taking everything else we can throw in there, including renewables, alongside it.

[316] Well, I think it has to become something that people are aware of and becomes trendy.

[317] And that's one of the great things in the film.

[318] This Brazilian woman that lives in Austin.

[319] Oh, yeah.

[320] Yeah, she lives in Austin.

[321] Her name is Isabel Bomke.

[322] And she makes TikTok films.

[323] Yeah.

[324] And these little TikTok videos, the great thing about those is they become viral.

[325] And maybe that is how the message gets out.

[326] Yeah, I think that's part of it.

[327] I think it needs to be addressed by leaders, the leadership of, let's say, President Zee of China has committed to the UN that by 2060, they will have zero carbon emissions.

[328] Well, I think you're going to.

[329] That's a vow.

[330] It's going to take someone who's got some courage.

[331] Yeah.

[332] Because politically, it's an issue because people do have this false narrative in their head.

[333] Yeah.

[334] So it's going to take someone who's willing to step outside of what the polling would show.

[335] Because I would imagine that most people, if you, if you.

[336] just started talking about we have to switch the entire country over to nuclear power if you're running for president people go whoa whoa whoa whoa whoa whoa so many people just have the knee -jerk reaction that is brought about because of these films because of you know the anti -nuclear power movement there's there's still that propaganda exists in people's heads or the false narrative necessity is the mother of invention as things get worse it will be clear that we need nuclear more and more and more and we'll come late to the game and we'll say well We've got to build more, more, more nuclear because it's not working with wind and solar.

[337] Right, but I don't think you're going to see that from a politician.

[338] I don't think a politician is going to stick their neck out.

[339] I think it's going to have to be so prevalent in the public narrative.

[340] It's going to be have to be so prevalent in the zeitgeist that they think politically it's okay to be a proponent of it.

[341] Well, I think the younger generation is changing the numbers of the demographics of the, I think 60 percent.

[342] I'm reading our pro -nuclear now.

[343] That's great.

[344] In the U .S. It's probably TikTok.

[345] Well, maybe.

[346] It might be.

[347] But, you know, it's a new generation.

[348] They're more scared about climate change than they are about war.

[349] Yeah.

[350] And a lot of the older generation, they confuse, who confuse nuclear energy with nuclear bomb are dying off.

[351] And I think there is going to be a change.

[352] It has to be.

[353] There's no other way.

[354] There has to be.

[355] It's just.

[356] On top of it, it's a miracle.

[357] It's an incredible.

[358] incredible.

[359] If it's handled correctly, built correctly, like Hyman Rickover did with the Navy.

[360] That's the Navy was one of the biggest developers of nuclear in America.

[361] Yeah.

[362] From the 1950s, they built nuclear submarines and they kept going.

[363] Just talk about the power in a nuclear submarine, how long it lasts, too.

[364] Yeah.

[365] Yeah.

[366] One small reactor can run a submarine for how many, 50, 60 years before it means.

[367] And also, if you put two of them into an aircraft carrier, you've seen the size of those, that's just a giant 6 ,000 people on that thing.

[368] That can go for, also, two reactors can make, that's what they're doing.

[369] Actually, two reactors can make an aircraft carrier go for, I don't know, how many years, 50 years, 40 years.

[370] That's insane.

[371] It's incredible.

[372] I mean, it really is there's nothing like it.

[373] Nothing like it.

[374] The fact that that is not, that's not something that people marvel at.

[375] No. That you have a ship at sea that's powered entirely by nuclear power and it can go for 50 years or whatever it is.

[376] We try to show that in the film.

[377] I mean, it's just a miracle.

[378] It's insane.

[379] It's so much different than anything else.

[380] And if you just do it right like they do with the submarines or like they do with.

[381] You need discipline and you need to do it.

[382] and you need to redo it and do it and do it.

[383] So you standardize it.

[384] The United States never standardized it.

[385] Japan did, Korea did.

[386] They built one type of reactor, and they built it consistently.

[387] Just recently, Korea built four heavy water reactors, big ones in UAR, the United Arab Republic, four of them, 1 .4 gigawatts each.

[388] A gigawatts a billion watts.

[389] And so it's 5 .6 gigawatts.

[390] That's a huge amount.

[391] for the United Arab Republic that'll cover a huge area that's incredible that's the kind of building you need to do but you have to do it consistently didn't the phrase go ahead please and by the way you can you can ship it too you know if you do if you assembly line it like in Korean shipyards or something you can build it in a way that you with SMRs parts you can put the parts in and ship them like a Lego set up and down the coastline of China or the coastline of America, any country.

[392] Russians did that in Pevec, which is an Arctic outpost.

[393] They built, they sent a barge.

[394] The Greenpeace, of course, predicted it would be a nuclear Titanic, and it wasn't.

[395] It arrived in Pevec, and it's set up, and it's working beautifully to this day.

[396] So SMRs are shippable, and they can be built in shipyards.

[397] They can be assembled by the thousands.

[398] There's no reason not to.

[399] Now, what about, If one of those things sinks.

[400] Yeah, well, water absorbs it, absorbs radiation.

[401] Well, so, like, what happens when there have been nuclear submarines that have sunk, right?

[402] Well, if they did, there's been no damage, I know.

[403] Isn't the phrase can neither confirm nor deny?

[404] Doesn't that come from, I think that comes from an operation, I believe I heard this on Radio Lab.

[405] I think that phrase comes from an operation where they were trying to recover a Russian -downed submarine.

[406] Right.

[407] I remember that.

[408] And they had to answer the question.

[409] And so when they were questioned, their answer was, we can neither confirm nor deny.

[410] Because they were put in a position when they were supposed to interact.

[411] So how do we say this?

[412] We can't lie.

[413] We can't say, no, we're not going to tell you because we have to answer.

[414] So the answer they came up with is we can neither confirm nor deny.

[415] which is a beautiful it's very eloquent if you really think about it you want to be a bullshit artist like that's an amazingly eloquent statement that was the one that Howard Hughes was involved in global global is that what it was yeah how are you yeah that sounds right yeah never heard more about it you know whatever happened it was you know the world the world didn't end that's the thing about nuclear people say well when if something goes wrong it really goes wrong but that's no evidence that's an exaggeration in but in comparison but in comparison but in comparison to the things that we absolutely know go wrong with just transportation, just driving.

[416] Like, deaths are inevitable when you have hundreds of millions of people.

[417] Obviously, you want to mitigate them as much as possible.

[418] You want to mitigate dangers as much as possible.

[419] But we're just victim of, like, bad narrative.

[420] Industrial accidents.

[421] You know how many people die here?

[422] Two million.

[423] It's incredible.

[424] So 50 people died at Turnable.

[425] And here we are running away from nuclear.

[426] Yeah, it's kind of crazy.

[427] But that's humans.

[428] We're so weird like that.

[429] Germany is the craziest of all.

[430] I mean, they are smart people.

[431] I thought they were mathematical geniuses.

[432] Well, explain what you're talking about, because a lot of people probably don't even know that they shut down.

[433] They originally built 20 -some reactors in the 70s, and they were doing very fine with it, and they'd no problems.

[434] And now they've shut them all down because the Green Party, which is a political party, green party, which is also pro -war, pro -NATO.

[435] you know it's very strange green party it's a hybrid anyway they came into power and it's a democracy and they they don't want any nuclear so they destroyed they shut down all their plants that were working and we show that in the film it's insane and what did they go with they replaced it with coal and and gas and as a result and a lot of solar and a lot of a lot of turbines they In fact, if you think, look at the solar park that they built.

[436] They built a gigantic solar park in Germany, 495 ,000 panels.

[437] 490, can you imagine that?

[438] 500 acres.

[439] 495 ,000 panels.

[440] That's enormous.

[441] And that park, if you took, they took down a nuclear reactor in the area.

[442] That one was about 100 acres, but it was producing about 100 times more electricity than this 500 acres.

[443] on one -fifth the land?

[444] Not only that, at what point in time does that become pollution?

[445] Like, if you were talking about...

[446] I mean, just whatever the panels are.

[447] Like, whatever that area is, like, what have you done to that area?

[448] I know we don't think about...

[449] We just think about it as land.

[450] But that's part of Earth.

[451] So you've covered part of Earth with this...

[452] with these fucking panels.

[453] Yeah.

[454] It looks gross.

[455] The turbines look gross too.

[456] I went down to...

[457] I was going to...

[458] down to South Texas and I drove past this turbine farm and I'm like how is that not bothering people that's it's like eye pollution you're looking at these things that are spit these giant machines that are spinning instead of just the landscape it looks like we're tricking ourselves into thinking that this is like a hundred percent clean it's not clean if all you're looking at is turbines if you're driving on the highway and you see hundreds of turbines with lights on them so planes don't fly into them.

[459] That's not clean.

[460] Like that's a part of the problem.

[461] Like that's polluting the environment.

[462] Well, each country looks like shit.

[463] Yeah, I understand.

[464] Each country's different.

[465] It depends what they want to do with their land.

[466] I mean, Denmark has had some success with that.

[467] Germany's had greater success with wind than they have with solar.

[468] That's for sure.

[469] But they're not dealing with it because we're still putting out.

[470] Yeah.

[471] We're putting out shit in the air.

[472] It's also, yeah.

[473] I mean, it's certainly.

[474] better than burning coal.

[475] It's certainly better than many alternatives, but still, it's not perfect.

[476] Well, we should talk about methane because that is not better.

[477] It's more damaging in the short term.

[478] Methane is.

[479] Methane is horrible, and it leaks all along the line, as we say in the film.

[480] That's gas.

[481] Natural gas.

[482] Natural gas.

[483] And we talk about it like it's some kind of savior.

[484] It's a perfect partner for renewables.

[485] That's what they sell themselves as, and they advertise it.

[486] When they show the footage of how much gas, release from those pipes.

[487] It's crazy.

[488] I showed it in the film.

[489] We showed the infrared camera.

[490] How much gas is leaked?

[491] You turn your gas stove on, and that's a leak right there.

[492] And that goes a long way towards destroying the atmosphere.

[493] A lot of people are upset that they're trying to ban gas stoves in future buildings in New York City.

[494] That's a big thing.

[495] But, you know, I was like, okay, are people overreacting?

[496] Who's overreacting?

[497] And then you think about it, like, it's just for the convenience of cooking, that you enjoy cooking more with that?

[498] Is it a price thing?

[499] Because nuclear would solve the issue of the availability of power.

[500] Yeah.

[501] But would it, you know, I think people just like to cook with gas, which is really weird.

[502] Like, if it's really bad for you and really bad for the city and for the environment, that just the fact that you don't like cooking with electric.

[503] Well, I can't comment on that.

[504] I just know that methane has short -term, huge effect on the atmosphere, long -term, less.

[505] But they did recently ban it in New York City, correct?

[506] I don't know.

[507] I think they banned it for new home construction.

[508] Yeah, I think that's right.

[509] And everybody went crazy.

[510] And I was like, wait a little, I don't know about this.

[511] Maybe that's not the worst thing in the world.

[512] You know, like...

[513] First statewide ban on use of natural gas and new buildings, yeah.

[514] Yeah, because if that stuff really does live...

[515] lower IQs.

[516] Isn't that one of the things that they've discussed?

[517] I don't know why.

[518] See if you could find that.

[519] I heard that, yeah.

[520] Yeah, see if you could find, because I remember there was something about it having an effect on cognitive function.

[521] Yeah.

[522] Which, you know, we found out, we just talked about this the other day, but we found out from leaded gas that there's a giant dip in IQ points, not a giant one, but like a measurable, dip and IQ points amongst people that grew up in my generation with lead and gas everywhere.

[523] Yeah, well, I wonder about my own brain.

[524] I guess, you know, we've been around long enough.

[525] Well, we're getting old, Oliver, and that's part of the problem.

[526] Sometimes it has to do with childhood asthma.

[527] Childhood asthma, that's it?

[528] Didn't say anything about cognitive function?

[529] I even typed an IQ here, and it didn't bring up any.

[530] Interesting.

[531] Maybe I'm good for it.

[532] So much heat comes off nuclear that it really is not being used.

[533] As the scientist says in the film, it could heat New York City.

[534] Yeah, so if it's caught, even if it's causing kids asthma, like, it's not good for anybody then.

[535] Like, if that's really what's going on with gas.

[536] But the amount of time that it would take to get the United States, like, what would that take?

[537] To get rid of all of the things that are polluting the environment, all of the things that are putting out particulate, coal and all that's up, replace it with nuclear?

[538] We give it that.

[539] We showed that graph from here to 2050, thinking.

[540] backwards in trying, you have to get this thing going.

[541] You have to get the nuclear part going.

[542] It's going to go slower at the beginning because they take longer to build.

[543] But once they're up, maintenance is very, very easy to do on these things.

[544] So in 2030 to 2040, if you're built, this stuff is going to start to pay off.

[545] From 2040 to 2050, it's going to be a huge run, a huge race, and we can do it.

[546] We may not get all the way to zero, but it's certainly doable.

[547] If Rickover were in charge of a program, he would push it through.

[548] But it's not just us.

[549] I mean, honestly, the Chinese are doing their part.

[550] They're trying.

[551] They're really trying because they see the problem.

[552] And, you know, for a president to say that, Z, when he said he's going to go down to zero by 2060, that's 10 years later, that's pretty good.

[553] That's amazing if they can stick to it.

[554] Russia, too, plays a huge role.

[555] So does India, by them.

[556] Well, they obviously have much more control over how.

[557] things run.

[558] They don't really rely on the public's opinion or people voting.

[559] Exactly.

[560] Exactly.

[561] Which is...

[562] That's okay because we have to...

[563] We're talking about the Earth here.

[564] But you know, let's talk about France.

[565] France has been nuclear since 1975.

[566] They built 56 reactors in 15 years.

[567] That's pretty fast.

[568] And they were all...

[569] They're all working.

[570] Some of them are getting very old now and they have to be either renewed or replaced.

[571] But they still have those nuclear...

[572] A lot of their electricity in France, 70 % is nuclear.

[573] They have some hydropower and I think some gas, but not much.

[574] Well, I genuinely think that it takes someone like you making a documentary about this to get the word out there to the point where people really start demanding this.

[575] I really do.

[576] I'm trying.

[577] You're countering all those movies that you discuss, all the fictional movies.

[578] You're countering all those.

[579] You're countering all of our, the stuff that we had growing up, Godzilla and Spider -Man and all that.

[580] That's what it is.

[581] It's like we, we associate radiation with negativity.

[582] Yeah.

[583] And nuclear power with radiation.

[584] We show images of, in Brazil, it's going to, Brazilian is going to black sand beaches to absorb the radiation that is good for the body.

[585] Yeah.

[586] We show, you know, in cancer therapies, it's used, radiation, heavy radiation is used to kill off tumors in the in the body we show uh in iran ramsar iran which has got huge radioactive activity it's very high and it's got it's tremendously uh no one's they're doing very well in iran with that ramsar no one's dying yeah so in other ways we can live with radiation much longer we know because DNA has crick and watson found that reduplicates It has a double.

[587] So the body repairs itself as it's damaged.

[588] And that was a big argument in the old science because the Rockefeller Foundation, of course, put out the scare, and they're oil people.

[589] They put out the scare to the public in 1957 where they said, you know, any amount of radiation to the body is dangerous.

[590] And that really worked.

[591] In New York Times, publisher put it in the front page and a column.

[592] It gets out.

[593] you know, that fear.

[594] So that's where meanwhile, the counter comes later, but you don't hear about it.

[595] And the counter claim is we repair our body as we get, as we move through life.

[596] That's what DNA does.

[597] It's a wonderful system we have of DNA.

[598] Well, we just have scary stories about radiation.

[599] And, you know, rightly so, in some cases, like the radium girls, those Those, do you know about this?

[600] No, I don't know.

[601] They used to use radioactive paint for, like, indices on watches and things along those lines.

[602] You know, loom?

[603] Do you know loom?

[604] You know what that is?

[605] Like, on watch face, there's these little dots, right?

[606] Well, these little dots collect light when it's light out.

[607] And then it's dark, they glow.

[608] Well, people used to apply those things with paint.

[609] They didn't realize the consequences of the radioactivity.

[610] so these girls would sometimes like lick the tip of their brush to wet it to shape it and they develop horrible cancers and it's uh it's it's a very famous story but these poor women like they they develop these holes in their faces it's it's really really scary stuff but it's from very specific type of radiation and it's also from direct contact through it through this paint with no protection at all well i can't comment on what I don't know, but certainly.

[611] Yeah, no, I understand.

[612] But, so there are some consequences that are negative that are associated with radiation rightly.

[613] Yes.

[614] And this is one of them.

[615] High levels of radiation will hurt and kill.

[616] Exposure to radiation.

[617] I mean, there's a reason why they make you put a lead thing over your junk when you get into an x -ray machine.

[618] That's correct.

[619] And I went to a lot of that when I was visiting the plants in France, Russia, and here at Idaho National Laboratory, we talked to a lot of scientists, and people who handle it.

[620] Those people who know, no, they don't, they don't, they don't freak out about it.

[621] Was this something, this, this subject that you, when you, when you decided to make a documentary about this, was it simply just because you had the information and you felt compelled that this is just not a story that's being told correctly?

[622] No, I, I read a book, I read a review, a book review in the New York Times of all things, in about Joshua Goldstein's book with Stephen Kivist, the Swedish nuclear zionist, and it was called Bright Future.

[623] I bought the book, read it.

[624] It was very practical, it's simple, and it goes into the truth, which is, this is all, there's been a lot of lies, and that I bought the book and made the movie with him.

[625] He gave me a lot of, I had to learn a lot, I had to travel, and it was difficult.

[626] It was not an easy film to make.

[627] I wanted to make it understandable to a ninth grade level, you know, trying to make it simple.

[628] I think it works at that level.

[629] It absolutely does, yeah, definitely.

[630] It's just very important to do, and I'm really glad you did it.

[631] Because I've talked to so many intelligent people that share your perspective on this.

[632] But it's just not being discussed publicly enough.

[633] Well, that it might have been our solution the whole time.

[634] It was.

[635] Yeah.

[636] It was.

[637] Yeah, I shouldn't have said might.

[638] Eisenhower was on the right path.

[639] And John Kennedy supported it completely.

[640] Remember, we quote him in the film.

[641] It got derailed, obviously, in the 70s with Ralph Nader was very influential.

[642] And he's done great work, Nader.

[643] But, of course, on car safety.

[644] But, you know, he was wrong about, he exaggerated this to a degree that was not necessary.

[645] Do you think people exaggerated it because they have their all.

[646] own heightened anxiety about it and so it's not like they did it on purpose they did it because they were genuinely misinformed that's correct yeah i do believe that uh nader is the good man yeah i believe and he still believes in it that he's right but it's a question of degree you know like not he said all cleveland's going to blow up from one nuclear reactor that's not true you know if it blew up it's not going to blow up cleveland right and it's not a bomb and And unfortunately, that was the original confusion.

[647] It's never been figured out.

[648] But there wasn't also no one to counter him.

[649] Like, who would counter him back then?

[650] William Buckley, Scientist did.

[651] But someone publicly.

[652] That one I can't answer you because I don't remember.

[653] Well, frankly, do you remember the guy who started Greenpeace Moore?

[654] Dr. Moore, he was the co -founder of Greenpeace.

[655] He came out and said, you know, we were right about a lot of things at Greenpeace, the whale, saving the whale.

[656] We were right about toxic waste.

[657] We were right about nuclear bombs, but we were wrong about nuclear energy.

[658] We got it wrong.

[659] He says that in the film.

[660] It's a wonderful statement.

[661] But again, people, I guess when you get, you hear the negative first, you don't go, you don't listen to the positive.

[662] Yeah, that's the problem.

[663] We're slaves to our initial impressions.

[664] Well, that's the point of maturity.

[665] Yes.

[666] That's where you have to get smarter.

[667] Yes.

[668] It's just very difficult for people to do.

[669] It's a lesson that doesn't get taught enough that you are not your ideas.

[670] And once you start talking about a subject, particularly something that is a world -changing subject like nuclear power or renewable energy, you have to be, it's not you.

[671] These arguments are not you.

[672] You have to look at just the data.

[673] You have to look at the data.

[674] And just because you had an initial idea about something, don't.

[675] Don't, don't, look at it correctly.

[676] Exactly.

[677] Because it is, people associate themselves with ideas.

[678] And if they've espoused an idea, they somehow are another thing.

[679] They have to defend it to the end.

[680] And it's a terrible trap to get into.

[681] And I've seen brilliant people get into that trap.

[682] It's a terrible trap.

[683] You're not your ideas.

[684] They're just ideas.

[685] Well said.

[686] And you're certainly not something that is a very nuanced and complicated issue like nuclear power.

[687] You could be a person who was anti -y, nuclear power a few decades ago or even a few months ago and get new information, go, oh, okay, this is what I thought, and this is where I was wrong.

[688] And that's better for everybody.

[689] And if people learned how to do that, we could move past a lot of silly shit in this country.

[690] Yeah, I wish Jane Fonda would come out the other way.

[691] What is she on now?

[692] I admire her for her Vietnam stand.

[693] Oh, yeah.

[694] She could mean a lot if she understood this and came out against but so is you know there's a lot of the people know this Matt Tybee and Russell Brown brand they understand they've done the reading they're smart people we got to get it out and it's going to happen they're smart people and they're courageous enough to just start talking about it as I say in the film you know with Josh I said nuclear has been around it's been discredited constantly but it won't die it's like something that just sticks around because it's good it's the truth and that I think is going to be inevitable because there is no other alternative.

[695] I mean, we can talk about carbon capture.

[696] We can talk about all the things that they're doing.

[697] Fusion is a great solution.

[698] I love fusion.

[699] I was just up at MIT with Dr. Dennis Swite.

[700] He's the head of the program there.

[701] He's fusion plasma.

[702] It's beautiful, amazing amount of work.

[703] And maybe it'll work in the second part of the century.

[704] But right now we have, from 2020 to 2050, we've got to deal with his hump.

[705] And fusion is not there yet.

[706] It hasn't delivered.

[707] Fission has.

[708] There's also some research that's being done on utilizing the spent fuel cells and utilizing the waste and converting it into batteries, correct?

[709] Isn't that it?

[710] I didn't know about batteries.

[711] I know in Russia, they had the breeder reactor that I saw at Beliarsk, which we went out to the middle of Russia.

[712] I forgot exactly where it is.

[713] And so beautifully, it was designed, it's a 600.

[714] It was designed many years ago, and it does breed more than it, it eats up its own fuel.

[715] And it reuses the fuel over and over again.

[716] That's why they call it a breeder reactor, because it breeds more.

[717] Yeah.

[718] And they're using it.

[719] It's expensive.

[720] That's the problem.

[721] Can they standardize it?

[722] That's the other problem.

[723] You have to make it cheap, too.

[724] But the Russians have done it, and now they're building an 800, which is a problem.

[725] a bigger one.

[726] So, you know, I hope's for that.

[727] But on the U .S. side, we have all these smaller, we have GE working with Hitachi, which is Japanese company.

[728] They'll building an SMR, a small modular reactor, with, you know, some capacity.

[729] It could make a radioactive, our radioactive diamond bat, whoops.

[730] Hold on a side of that.

[731] Pop a bag got us.

[732] We had, on batteries, unveils battery made from nuclear waste that could last up to 28 ,000 years.

[733] The nanodiamond batteries power comes from radioactive isotopes used in nuclear reactors.

[734] Yeah, that's what I was talking about.

[735] So as technology advances, and obviously technology would, you know, whatever they're able to do now or even, have they actually done this or is this just theoretical?

[736] This article is 2020.

[737] It unveiled a battery that uses nuclear waste.

[738] I don't know.

[739] They're saying that they actually have a functional product.

[740] Whoa.

[741] The article I had that we got the pop -up was a nuclear.

[742] Oh, I thought it was theoretical.

[743] I thought it was theoretical.

[744] I don't know they're already making batteries out of it.

[745] But if they can do that, I mean, bingo.

[746] Now we have a problem with electric cars, right?

[747] That was the problem.

[748] Electric cars, the batteries.

[749] That's the giant issue is you're getting lithium out of the ground And most of it is sourced through unethical ways You're getting cobalt most of that source through unethical ways But if they can make batteries out of fucking diamonds And to make, I mean, how crazy is that?

[750] We're all running around on cars built on nuclear waste But you still have the problem of it has to be cotton and size It has to be a country size dimension, scalability You know, if you can make an iPhone, you can make a car work on an individual basis and here and there, but how do you make it so it works on a continent size?

[751] You know, we're talking about it.

[752] Look at the world map.

[753] Well, I think we have to look in terms of a long period of time.

[754] If you go back to just the invention of electricity to the time where everybody's carrying around a battery powered cell phone in your pocket, you're not talking about that long.

[755] We're talking about a couple of hundred years.

[756] We're looking at it like, oh my God, we've got to get it done tomorrow.

[757] I don't think you do get this thing done tomorrow.

[758] I think But I think a big step is what you're describing in your documentary.

[759] That's a big step.

[760] A big step is like understanding that nuclear power is a fantastic way forward.

[761] And if they really can make batteries out of nuclear waste, well, now we have a, instead of a problem, now we've got a commodity.

[762] Now you've got something they could utilize.

[763] Although, remember what Bill Gates says in the film.

[764] Hold on a second.

[765] Yeah, as I Googled it again.

[766] It said like 2017 they were saying this was still a hoax.

[767] But they always say that We have to keep optimistic So our nuclear diamond battery is too good to be true You're probably wondering what the catch is There's a diamond battery out there that really uses nuclear waste Last thousands of years It involves layers of only the most minuscule diamonds It's slightly more complicated than that Each battery cell will produce only a small amount of energy For one thing So scientists must combine the cells In huge numbers in order to regularly power large devices raising the cost a great deal, along with increasing the complexity.

[768] So I guess the battery would have to be big.

[769] It touts the tiny share of the nano -battery diamond cells as an advantage for scalability, though.

[770] Take the battery for a wristwatch, for instance.

[771] It consumes around two micawatts.

[772] A much smaller NDB cell would be sufficient.

[773] Okay.

[774] So that's smaller than the battery that's on your watch?

[775] That's pretty small.

[776] So if we need power a different application, the number of stack cells can be increased to meet the demand.

[777] That sounds like every battery.

[778] Listen, Bill Gates, in the film, says, you know, he's put a billion dollars into the battery business.

[779] He's really done a lot of exploration, and as well, he's doing great work on nuclear.

[780] But he says there's no battery that's going to, it would take a miracle.

[781] It's just not going to happen.

[782] He says, we're going to need nuclear.

[783] Even he said that.

[784] And he's not proud of that, but I don't know why he's running away from it.

[785] I think we should be very proud of using nuclear, because it was a tremendous discovery by Marie.

[786] Curie.

[787] I think a lot of people are skittish about the conversation.

[788] Yes.

[789] I've noticed that, yeah.

[790] Why doesn't Al Gore's in the film, The Convenient Truth, even mention nuclear energy?

[791] Yeah, it's true.

[792] Good point.

[793] You know, it's nuts.

[794] It's nuts.

[795] Can we take a break?

[796] Yep.

[797] I could tell.

[798] You're ready to go.

[799] You got to pee.

[800] Yeah.

[801] No worries.

[802] I'm all right back.

[803] So Tridium is the stuff that they make.

[804] That also lights up the watch hands.

[805] They put that stuff inside watches It lasts for like 25 years Yeah, I have one of those I have a marathon watch And it's like Even if it's like pitch blackout All of the Hour indicators are all lit up Permanently It's really cool Yeah And that's radioactive too And it's totally safe That's what it looks like That's what the Fukushima That's what Tridium looks like Have you ever seen it on a watch hand It's really beautiful Like click on that image again Jamie That's what it looks like like.

[806] So it lights up permanently.

[807] Like you have little, you have radiation on your wrist.

[808] Well, that's been the big issue in the Fukushima cleanup because they said that water is filled with tritium.

[809] And Josh, my co -author, was saying, you know, I could drink a gallon of tritium and it would be about the equivalent to one banana.

[810] So it's a lot of bullshit.

[811] Really?

[812] You drink a gallon of tritium?

[813] Yeah.

[814] And it's about what negative aspect of a banana?

[815] He says electrons in it.

[816] Oh, wow.

[817] It just don't penetrate.

[818] They don't, you know, it's a sign.

[819] I'm not a sign as no way.

[820] I understand.

[821] I'm not either.

[822] So I buy it.

[823] But I love the fact that my watch has these little indicators that are nuclear.

[824] Everyone's screaming.

[825] You know, you can't dump it in the Pacific.

[826] That's what the environmentalists say they're wrong.

[827] You got the water is safe because, by way, the sea absorbs a lot of radiation.

[828] Yeah, there's a company called Ball and all of their watches used Tridium.

[829] And they've been doing it forever.

[830] Like they've been making these watches for a long time.

[831] And they're famous for the fact that all their indicators are little radioactive things.

[832] I'm terrible for the watch market.

[833] I never had a watch for years.

[834] You never had a watch?

[835] No, I don't like to keep track of the time.

[836] I know the time in my head.

[837] I kind of have a sense of it.

[838] Good for you.

[839] Yeah, you don't want to be a slave to this thing.

[840] Exactly.

[841] Yeah.

[842] I want something on my wrist telling me what to do.

[843] Do you still rock a smartphone though?

[844] Oh, I use a smartphone as little as possible because it's essential now.

[845] They've made it essential.

[846] That's basically a clock anyway.

[847] You're getting your time from your wall.

[848] Yeah, it's a clock.

[849] I can set an alarm to it, but I wake up on my, basically, earlier.

[850] So the phone is, I just, the only thing I don't like about the phone is, I'm always worried about losing it I lose a lot of time looking for phone you know why don't they make a double of this a DNA copy yeah you can't have two because then someone else would copy your phone is that right yeah and they would start using your phone it's about copying you know yeah it's about getting access to your you know whatever you have credit cards that are on it and all the the data that they can sell yeah I mean they're selling data no matter what anyway it's the weirdest commodity that's ever existed A thing that people didn't even know is worth anything.

[851] Are you worried about losing your phone?

[852] I mean, people know you.

[853] Sure.

[854] Yeah, I worry about losing my phone.

[855] Yeah, I try not to.

[856] Well, you probably have an automatic shutoff on your account, right?

[857] So no one's going to rip you off for American Express or credit card.

[858] Yeah.

[859] But it's still, it's very inconvenient, obviously.

[860] It sucks.

[861] It's inconvenient.

[862] I use my phone to get in my car, too.

[863] It's inconvenient, but it's not dangerous.

[864] Right, it's not dangerous.

[865] My phone operates my Tesla.

[866] I don't even have to have my key.

[867] Just have to have my phone.

[868] Your phone operates your Tesla.

[869] Yeah.

[870] How do you do that before you...

[871] Just it knows that it's me. So the app knows that it's me. So if it's in my phone and rather the phone is in my pocket and I walk towards the Tesla, the door's open and lets me in.

[872] It knows it's me. I don't even have to have a key on me. It's like, hey, dude, I go, I don't have my key.

[873] Don't worry about it.

[874] We know it's you.

[875] But also, somebody could take your phone and without even unlocking it, they could just start driving your Tesla.

[876] That's true too.

[877] because you know when you walk towards the car it just goes off even if your phone's not even unlocked and that's not good because then if somebody gets your phone then they get your car what made you so smart show I'm not that smart come on it can be a break where'd you go to school I'm curious oh dude I barely made it through high school and then I went to UMass Boston I was in Newton Newton South high school Massachusetts yeah suburb outside of Boston yeah I think the thing that's helped me more than anything is being on this show and having conversations with people It's like when you think of education as being something, obviously when you sit in a classroom, you're absorbing a lot.

[878] You're getting a lot of education.

[879] And the kids today that are going through the work load that they have to go through to put in to get a bachelor's degree and then a master's or a PhD.

[880] It's an insane amount of work.

[881] But you're absorbing information.

[882] That's the key.

[883] The key is that you're learning about all these different subjects and absorbing all that information.

[884] And you prove it with your degree.

[885] That's the beauty of also making films because you get that opportunity to spend time to luxuriate in this.

[886] You get to talk to people too.

[887] You mean, you get to talk to like...

[888] Yeah, this and that.

[889] I was so grateful for this.

[890] You know, I've done 20 fiction films, feature films, 10 documentaries, and you want to get out in the field.

[891] You want to talk to real people who are doing things.

[892] Yeah.

[893] Well, I think it's so important, especially to do the work that you're doing.

[894] How else could you relate?

[895] How else can you, you have to get out there.

[896] Well, find the quick thing that's bothering you.

[897] What really is bothering you?

[898] And in this matter, it was, of course, what do they mean?

[899] This is confusing climate bullshit.

[900] They go forth, back and forth.

[901] Even if you don't believe in climate change when I found out, you thought I would still go nuclear because it is the cleanest of all, no battery, no storage.

[902] Absolutely.

[903] I think there's two schools of thought when it comes to climate change.

[904] is the school of thought that it's not an issue, it's a natural cycle, and there's a school of thought that human beings are pushing the world to the brink of demise.

[905] I think human beings are doing a lot.

[906] Whenever people try to come up with excuses for things, I was like, ooh, like, well, it's always been this way, but how much impact are we having?

[907] Instead of looking at it like the climate's always going to change, which it always does, That's the thing about the climate.

[908] If you look at the climate models when they do ice core samples, when they try to figure out how warm it used to be and what the atmosphere was like, it's always changed.

[909] I mean, it's changed radically.

[910] But how much are we fucking it up?

[911] Forget about it.

[912] It's never static.

[913] It's never like the climate is like this.

[914] If human beings never existed, internal combustion engines never existed, you still have volcanoes.

[915] You've got chaos.

[916] You got asteroids.

[917] You got all kinds of shit.

[918] There's no stable.

[919] There's no flat, safe.

[920] We get to this.

[921] We're on our life vest.

[922] We're on a life raft.

[923] We're going to make it out.

[924] No, no, no, no, no. Even if I lived in Iowa, no, no, no, no, no. That's all nonsense.

[925] In a nice small town?

[926] In a country town.

[927] That's what we want, right?

[928] We want this idea.

[929] But the reality is, the reality is ice ages.

[930] The reality is super volcanoes.

[931] The reality is asteroid impacts.

[932] That's the reality.

[933] Those are the horrific things that radically change the temperature of Earth and the environment and all kinds of things.

[934] What about that lady in somewhere in Missouri?

[935] The tornado came out of nowhere and just blew the house away.

[936] Yeah, Jesus Christ, that's crazy too.

[937] Those are things that are - Tornado, I mean.

[938] Yeah, those are things that are absolutely real and terrified.

[939] I saw those in the Midwest when I was shooting, you know, especially in Louisiana and Texas Panhandle that area.

[940] Yeah.

[941] They have a lot of whirlwinds, a lot of wind.

[942] wind shifts.

[943] Oh, it's incredible.

[944] There's an amazing video this guy driving at night and the tornadoes in the distance and you only see it when the lightning strikes.

[945] Oh, God.

[946] And it's huge.

[947] I mean, it's like city blocks and it's in the sky.

[948] This is just a massive funnel and these people are in a car and they're just driving down the road watching this.

[949] It's fucking wild.

[950] Do you find it?

[951] Watch this.

[952] Look at this.

[953] Look at this.

[954] that.

[955] Look at the size of that thing.

[956] Yeah.

[957] I mean, how terrifying is that?

[958] It's terrifying.

[959] Terrifying.

[960] Oh, that's scarier than King Kong, Godzilla, all the above.

[961] Real things.

[962] Yeah.

[963] Real things.

[964] Not nuclear power.

[965] The angry sky monster that comes down and destroys cities.

[966] There is nuclear power in that electricity.

[967] Oh, yeah.

[968] You know, this was all came from the beginning, the supernova that exploded.

[969] Yeah.

[970] Supernova's exploding all the time.

[971] Where does it all start?

[972] I mean, the beginning of the world, we don't really know.

[973] There's no beginning.

[974] No, we don't really know.

[975] I think we have these biological limitations that we put on the universe.

[976] Well, what did the first?

[977] There's a birth to death.

[978] Where's this explosion come from?

[979] Right.

[980] And before that, was there another explosion?

[981] Right.

[982] There was a great piece.

[983] There was a great documentary on hypernovas that I watched once.

[984] And, you know, when they first.

[985] started discovering hypernovas they thought that there was aliens having war in the sky right because there was explosions that were taking place in far distant portions of the universe and they were like what is happening these are happening on a regular basis and then they realized that these are hypernovas I never heard of that yeah they they destroy solar systems they destroy everything like there's it's such it's an immense explosion of power that's beyond our comprehension And it's happening all the time.

[986] Do you believe in extraterrestrial life?

[987] Yes.

[988] 100%.

[989] 100%.

[990] Yeah, I just don't know if it's here.

[991] I don't know if it's visited.

[992] But just the vastness of the universe itself, and if you believe in the concept of infinity, that means the possibilities of this happening exactly the way we are are also infinite.

[993] It's not, it's really hard to put it in your head because it doesn't make it.

[994] sense but the true infinity would mean that everything that you've ever done and everything that I've ever done and everything we've ever said and every piece of paper you ever put down all that has happened an infinite number of times in the universe in some other place that's how crazy and every other variable in between that's how crazy infinity is so I think that if we if we imagine that we're the only ones that seems silly It just doesn't even make sense.

[995] It's just too, it's kind of like nuclear power because you talk about nuclear power to people and go, way, nuclear bombs, nuclear bad.

[996] Nuclear is dangerous.

[997] Nuclear is dangerous.

[998] I think we think that way about aliens because I think there's been so many cooks that have had so many fake stories and so many doctored photos and everything's blurry and just weird people that probably lied.

[999] And then compelling stories that are really, confusing like really intelligent people like commander David Fravor who was a fighter jet pilot in 2004 and encountered this thing that they tracked going from 50 ,000 feet above sea level to 50 in a second I think I saw was there a clip this video of this thing yeah I think I saw yeah there's a video of this thing they tracked did they think it was interacting with something that was submerged there they were as an eyes closed and then this thing when it jetted off at this insane rate of speed first of all it's blocked their tracking.

[1000] It blocked their, um, whatever the radar or whatever, whatever sensors that they were using.

[1001] And then it shot off in an insane rate of speed and stopped at their cat point, which is the point where they had the predetermined point where they were going to meet up in this exercise that they were doing.

[1002] This thing went to that spot.

[1003] And it was 20 feet long and looked like a tick -tack.

[1004] And it was just hovering, like a tick -tac, like a candy, Like a little white tic -tac candy.

[1005] So they call it a tick -tac UFO.

[1006] When I talk to guys like that, when I talk to guys like that, I'll go, well, if it's not a UFO, if that's not from another planet, it's maybe more scary than if the Chinese have something that's that advanced that can move like that, is this some new type of technology that might be available to the, probably just like the high -end military applications that they're using?

[1007] for drones and all these different propulsion methods if they've figured something that crazy out it's kind of game over if they can go 50 ,000 feet above sea level to 50 in a second like what is that well if they wanted to use it they would have done it by now perhaps or perhaps it's an alien or a probe from some alien planet or something non -biological maybe they've gotten past the necessity of biological life if you're an alien one or a problem Wouldn't you want to visit this place and share with the culture?

[1008] No, definitely not.

[1009] Why not?

[1010] The same reason why did you watch Chimp Empire?

[1011] Who?

[1012] Chimp Empire.

[1013] It's an amazing documentary series that's on Netflix right now.

[1014] And it's about these embedded journalists who document chimpanzee life in this part of the very deep in the jungle called a place called Ngogo.

[1015] And it's incredible because the scientists that laid the groundwork for this documentary, They've been studying this particular group of chimpanzees for 30 years.

[1016] So the chimpanzees have become completely fine with them being around.

[1017] They have, like, rules of interaction.

[1018] They have to stay within, I think, 20 yards of the chimpanzees at all time.

[1019] And as long as they do that, the chimpanzees behave as if they don't exist.

[1020] And they enact in war.

[1021] They kill monkeys.

[1022] They hunt.

[1023] They defend their territory.

[1024] they take over new territory.

[1025] They do all this stuff in front of people.

[1026] But they don't interact with the chimpanzees and they don't interrupt their life.

[1027] I think that's what the aliens do with us because that's what we do with intelligent primates.

[1028] Why would you do any different if you were an alien?

[1029] I think if I was an alien life form, I would make sure that the chimps don't blow themselves up.

[1030] Like if chimpanzees and Ngogo, if all of a sudden they've developed TNT and they start soldering and they're building bombs and they're planting, oh, okay, hold on, fellas, you can't blow yourselves up.

[1031] You can't just be blowing the jungle up and starting fires.

[1032] Let's stop.

[1033] If I was an alien life form, I would treat human beings the same way that I, as a human being, would treat chimpanzees if they started developing bombs.

[1034] I feel like, we didn't get the bombs away from the chimps.

[1035] If chimpanzees developed, like, missiles, and they started shooting missiles at each other or through the jungle.

[1036] You don't think we'd be like, hey, hey, hey, cut the shit.

[1037] You're not even people.

[1038] Only people are allowed to kill people like that.

[1039] I think if alien life forms do exist, I think the most likely strategy is the one that we use on higher primates, on lower primates, rather.

[1040] We don't interfere.

[1041] We observe, but the true scientists, they just sort of stand back and watch.

[1042] And the chimpanzees don't seem to have any problem with these people being around.

[1043] that's occasionally they get curious and when they start walking towards the person the person just keeps backing up and as long as they stay a certain distance the chimp loses interest it's really weird you just can't eat in front of them ever and you you know just can't ever like raise your voice you can't behave in a threatening way and they just interact with the chimps and this documentary is coming up it's out right now it's out on netflix it's it's fantastic it's really fantastic but learning too much too fast my point is like i think that if there are a it Aliens, I think they would do the same.

[1044] I think they would just watch.

[1045] Just make sure we don't blow ourselves up, watch, and maybe, maybe, you know, let us know occasionally that we're not alone.

[1046] That's what I would do.

[1047] I would like, just like the scientists had to slowly habituate themselves with the chimpanzees, they had to slowly do it.

[1048] They did it over.

[1049] It was the first the chimpanzees ran, and then they had to figure out some sort of way that they, They can just be around them enough that the chimpanzees relaxed.

[1050] And as soon as they realized they were never a threat, and then generations of them realized they were never a threat, then they could do the work that they're doing.

[1051] Pretty wild stuff.

[1052] I think that would do that if I was an alien.

[1053] I would just sit around and watch.

[1054] Well, that's why people have dogs and cats.

[1055] I love cats.

[1056] Cats are great.

[1057] They watch us, you know?

[1058] Yeah, sure.

[1059] It is an alien form, isn't it, a cat?

[1060] Oh, yeah, sure.

[1061] So are dogs.

[1062] Wolves.

[1063] are, I mean, it's what a bizarre alien life form.

[1064] Depends all degree.

[1065] I mean, a goldfish, for that matter, is an alien form.

[1066] Oh, my God.

[1067] Some of the most alien -looking stuff is in the ocean, for sure.

[1068] Oh, yeah.

[1069] I mean, octopuses are the most bizarre.

[1070] They're smart, I hear.

[1071] They're so smart.

[1072] They figure out jars.

[1073] They know how to unscrew jars.

[1074] Jesus.

[1075] And they also, they can camouflage themselves to look exactly like the floor.

[1076] Have you ever seen octopus to do that?

[1077] No. Oh, my God, you have to see this.

[1078] My friend, Remy Warren, he used to have a show.

[1079] called Apex Predator and it was a what he would do was like study all of the different methods that different Apex Predators used and see like is there anything you could emulate as a human being but this shows some footage of octopuses camouflaging themselves to their environment it's insane it's alien and this is what Remy said he goes dude they're aliens he goes you've never seen anything like it and he had no idea until he filmed this show I don't think of how complex their ability to blend in is but that's octopus which one right there that thing you're looking at they make themselves look like plants they make themselves look like coral they make themselves look like rock watch when they get over it look look how he changes color depending on what he's on yes that's octopus look at that watch what he does he blends in with the plant that's pretty wild and he blends in with the texture of the soil underneath the plant is that because there's a predator around no because he's a predator i see so as these these fish swim in looking to eat this octopus is hiding like they have octopuses that that kill sharks there's a there's a video of uh they had this see google octopus kills shark in aquariums Jesus Christ yeah they camouflage themselves to look like anything look at this watch how it does this.

[1080] Wow.

[1081] See, just get some good footage of what they do when they get over things.

[1082] But when they get over it, they've done them like cuttlefish, which are also similar.

[1083] I think they're called cephalopods.

[1084] They do it where they've done them, where they try to emulate a chessboard.

[1085] Oh, Jesus.

[1086] Yeah.

[1087] How bizarre is this?

[1088] Very.

[1089] So, you know, I wouldn't want to be.

[1090] But they change their texture.

[1091] I don't want to be an innocent fish around here.

[1092] I mean, what a crazy little thing that's moving around at the bottom of the ocean.

[1093] changing its texture, changing its colors to look exactly like its environment.

[1094] Like, look at this thing.

[1095] It's fucking bonkers.

[1096] That's an alien.

[1097] I mean, if we found that on another planet, we would be like, what the fuck is that thing?

[1098] For the DOD is studying it, trying to make octopus weapons.

[1099] Yeah, they probably definitely have studied these things.

[1100] Figure out how are they doing this.

[1101] Yeah.

[1102] Instead, they're sushi.

[1103] We turn them into sushi.

[1104] That's right.

[1105] We just grill them.

[1106] That's scary.

[1107] That's an insanely fascinating animal that we just eat.

[1108] You know, we just don't, we think of them as being so far removed from us that they're okay to eat.

[1109] Well, if you think about it, no. I mean, I stopped eating eels and octopus.

[1110] I don't know why.

[1111] And I stopped eating me about a few years ago.

[1112] How do you feel?

[1113] I feel great.

[1114] Do you eat eggs?

[1115] Once at a while.

[1116] Yeah?

[1117] Chicken, I don't eat at all, but eggs is different.

[1118] I think they're earlier chickens.

[1119] Well, they're not even earlier chickens.

[1120] They never become chickens because there's no rooster.

[1121] They're just non -fertilized eggs.

[1122] They're totally, it's like karma -free.

[1123] Yeah.

[1124] Like, as long as the chickens live in a good life, the only karma that you have is you're keeping the chicken from getting laid.

[1125] That's the only karma.

[1126] Uh -huh.

[1127] Right?

[1128] Uh -huh.

[1129] Well, I don't want to be chickens.

[1130] I don't want to eat at all.

[1131] I mean, I saw that Netflix documentary years ago.

[1132] Game Changer, was it called?

[1133] You ever seen that?

[1134] Yes, I have.

[1135] Yeah.

[1136] Turn me off.

[1137] Turned you off to what?

[1138] Meat.

[1139] Yeah?

[1140] That's a complex conversation.

[1141] Human beings have been eating meat since the beginning of time.

[1142] Yeah.

[1143] And a lot of the problems with these studies that are associated with whether or not meat is bad for you.

[1144] Yeah.

[1145] A lot of these things are, what they're doing is basically they're asking you to take a survey.

[1146] and if you say you ate meat four times a week or five times a week and then they make some sort of a correlation they say well the people that ate meat more consistently had more cancer more this more diabetes all these things which uh may be true but also what else did they eat because if they ate meat five times a week i guarantee you they were drinking coca cola i guarantee you they're eating bread i guarantee you they're eating spaghetti i guarantee you they were to eat in candy i guarantee you they were to eat in candy i guarantee you you monster energy drinks I want to know what the fuck they ate.

[1147] I don't tell me that because the people that ate meat more, because people that eat meat more generally, if you go by the narrative, the same kind of narrative that you have about nuclear power that it's bad for you.

[1148] If you go by that narrative, the people that chuck it off and don't give a shit, those are the same people that smoke cigarettes and drink whiskey, they don't care if it's bad for you.

[1149] They're going to eat meat.

[1150] Right?

[1151] But that doesn't mean meat's bad for you.

[1152] No. Because if they did a real study on And, like, what happens when people eat nothing but grass -fed meat and fruit and vegetables from an organic farm?

[1153] Let's monitor that.

[1154] Right.

[1155] And I bet they would do a lot fucking better than the standard American, right?

[1156] That's the problem.

[1157] The problem isn't meat.

[1158] The problem is what kind of meat?

[1159] What are you eating with meat?

[1160] People have been eating meat since the beginning of time.

[1161] Sure.

[1162] It's not, that's not the problem.

[1163] And if you look at human beings, you look at photos of people on the beach in 1970.

[1164] right you ever see that or 1950 1960 and then look at people in the beach today yeah that's not meat that's not me that's sugar that's sugar that's sugar that's you're talking about obesity yes an abundance of complex carbohydrates an abundance of simple carbohydrates an abundance of food just too much food way more food than your body is burning off you get bigger and bigger and bigger and the food is addictive it's addictive especially during the depression 1930s oh my god In those photographs, it's quite shocking that.

[1165] Yeah, they didn't.

[1166] Well, also, preservatives have allowed us to, like, store things on shelves.

[1167] People binge eat in the middle of the night.

[1168] It's like...

[1169] On the other hand, we did muscle up a lot, didn't we?

[1170] Oh, yeah, we got more jacked.

[1171] Yeah, I think people also learned, too.

[1172] They ate more protein, got larger, learned how to exercise better.

[1173] It became more of a thing.

[1174] Like, actually, you really should just do it.

[1175] Whereas before it was probably seen as a luxury.

[1176] you know people had to work all the time was harder lives they didn't think of uh getting fit and muscular as being important what about women yeah do you ever talk about that with them i mean why did should they work out oh yeah everyone should work out i think every just to maintain your body you just want to do it in a way where you're not going to get hurt that's the most important thing do it in a really smart way if you can do it with a trainer but everyone should do something whether it's yoga or push -ups or sit -ups and chin -ups and body weight stuff.

[1177] You can get an amazing workout done with a chin -up bar and just your body, just your physical body weight.

[1178] You don't really need to go to a gym, but you really should get someone to show you how to do stuff if you don't know how to do it.

[1179] And it helps if someone can help you write out a program that's like a good program for someone who's, if they assess like your physical ability.

[1180] You don't want to get like a person who just started to go run like David Goggins.

[1181] that would be ridiculous, but you want them to be able to build up and build up in a way where their body is recovering, and they continue to push themselves, but they're not getting hurt.

[1182] That's what you've got to do.

[1183] I say that to everybody.

[1184] I think everybody should do that.

[1185] It's just my suggestion.

[1186] I know people that are very happy that don't exercise at all.

[1187] It is possible.

[1188] It's just not possible for me. And I don't know what it's like for everybody else because I'm not you, but I can only tell you how it feels for me. For me, you know, I believe the people that say they don't need to exercise.

[1189] Maybe everyone's different.

[1190] It seems like we are anyway with everything else.

[1191] But for most people, if you just want to maintain your physical frame, if you want to maintain your functionality of your body, I really think it's imperative.

[1192] I don't, I don't, you know, I don't know what makes less sense.

[1193] If you just, if you don't use your body, it breaks down and then you can't get around.

[1194] And that sucks.

[1195] And when you can't get around, then we'd be willing to do anything to get it motion again.

[1196] Well, you can mitigate a lot of that by exercise, a lot of it.

[1197] Just keep your body fit and strong, and you don't have to worry as much about all the things that plague people.

[1198] You're going to have to worry.

[1199] We're getting old.

[1200] But you worry less.

[1201] You worry less if your body works well, much less.

[1202] Well, you know, we got on to this with climate change.

[1203] Yeah.

[1204] I was saying to you that, you know, climate change, if it didn't exist, which I believe it does, but if it didn't exist, I'd still advocate nuclear energy because it's clean.

[1205] Yeah, I think that's absolutely a great point.

[1206] And the IPCC, when they did their, you know, that's, I believe them.

[1207] Their body of sinus is a lot of them.

[1208] I mean, it's, I think, 200.

[1209] No, I believe in them.

[1210] And the IPCC says 2050 is a marking point.

[1211] And you go back and you check their charts from 1980s, and you find that from 1980 to 2000, they were accurate.

[1212] And then you go from 2000 to 2020, and they're accurate, very close to accurate.

[1213] In fact, they were a little bit more optimistic.

[1214] But now this, so you have to believe it as a 40 -year span.

[1215] Now we're looking at this.

[1216] What doesn't make sense to me is the illogic of pursuing this path of CO2, considering these charts.

[1217] And saying what they're saying.

[1218] I mean, what...

[1219] Yeah, absolutely.

[1220] You see the hurricanes, you see the wind, you see that the storms are bigger, seems to me. Well, I don't know if they're bigger.

[1221] I think the new argument is that what is the actual stats on...

[1222] Because people say that all the time, like storms are bigger than they've ever been before.

[1223] I don't think that's true.

[1224] I think the storms have actually lessened in intensity but increased in the amount of them.

[1225] I think that's the data.

[1226] But all of it's not good.

[1227] Whatever we're doing, see, the problem with me with climate change is that I always get wary when things become ideological.

[1228] Exactly.

[1229] When people start talking about it like, you know, like, listen, you've got to act now.

[1230] And if you don't, I'm like, hold, hold on.

[1231] How much do you know about this?

[1232] And how much are you just saying a narrative?

[1233] Right.

[1234] Because a lot of people want to argue ferociously about a narrative that they didn't even really looked into that much.

[1235] and it's that's the thing about on both sides even the republicans side the people that want to dismiss it i was having a conversation with the guy jiu jitsu once of all places like it's a natural cycle no matter what it's a natural cycle the earth warms i go how much work have you done on this do you know crazy it is like be that sure when no one's sure that's the whole reason when they're having this debate it's because no one can definitively prove how much of an impact we're going to have on us in a hundred years or 150 years or what's going to happen no one can how can you be so confident that it's just a natural cycle, but it's a right -wing perspective.

[1236] Like, he had bought into this, it's all bullshit, it's a natural cycle.

[1237] Like, bro, how do you know?

[1238] But you know because you don't like the people that think that we have to ban cars that use internal combustion engines.

[1239] You don't like the people that think we have to stop and close coal plants.

[1240] You don't like those people.

[1241] You think those people are annoying.

[1242] So you've decided to be annoying in the opposite way.

[1243] And that's what it is.

[1244] Yeah, but when you go to a city with horrible air, like Los Angeles used to be, like India, how do you feel?

[1245] Terrible.

[1246] Well, there's also an issue with brake dust.

[1247] You know, when you're in a very crowded urban environment, you know, brake dust that stuff that you get on your wheels?

[1248] No. You don't know what break dust is?

[1249] When you're using the brakes in your car, what's happening is there's this hydraulic pad that presses against a disc.

[1250] and the friction of that is what stops your car from moving forward right okay so when that happens it makes powder and this powder goes in the air and the powder gets all around your wheels if you've ever cleaned your wheels if you ever have like a nice car and you want to clean your wheels there's all this black shit in there that black shit is brake dust and that black shit's everywhere it's all over the place break dust contributes to 20 % of the fine particulate matter pollution compared to just 7 % contributed by exhaust fumes.

[1251] As all cars give off brake dust, there is no such thing as a truly zero -emission vehicle.

[1252] An electric car, same thing?

[1253] Yep, same thing.

[1254] Same method of slowing the car down.

[1255] Yeah, of slowing the car down.

[1256] It's the most effective method we know of.

[1257] And that's what happens.

[1258] Yeah.

[1259] Does it happen less than carbon fiber brakes?

[1260] is it the same effect on carbon fiber brakes Google that Well you have an encyclopedia here Yeah because they don't show up What's interesting is when you have carbon fiber brakes It doesn't leave that dust all over your wheels At least I don't think it does I don't think it leaves the same amount Does it say anything Yeah carbon fiber brakes break dust Yeah here it goes They're quieter than organic or metallic pads and produce less dust.

[1261] There it is.

[1262] They also last significantly longer, can tolerate a greater range of temperatures and fade less as they heat up.

[1263] Track reports, it says.

[1264] I have a car that has those.

[1265] Well, I'm learning a lot here.

[1266] Yeah, carbon ceramic brakes produce virtually zero brake dust.

[1267] I mean, like, they literally do not dust at all.

[1268] That does not sound scientific.

[1269] Like, I mean, like, they literally do not dust at all.

[1270] What's on the wheels will be what's on.

[1271] your paint, normal road dirt from driving around.

[1272] Yeah, that's what I've found just from driving around with my car.

[1273] Let me ask you this question then because you make me very curious.

[1274] That's the pessimism in the air that you feel the dystopia in movies, you constantly see it.

[1275] I hate those movies.

[1276] You know, there's always about negative sensational stuff and the news is awful.

[1277] The media just thrives on sensational bad news.

[1278] I mean, it's wars, this, that.

[1279] So they make you afraid.

[1280] Do you think this is like we should be afraid?

[1281] Do you want to live afraid?

[1282] What are you afraid of, those questions?

[1283] I don't think we should be afraid, but I think we should be aware.

[1284] And I don't think that, look, this demise fear, it exists because it happens.

[1285] Like, civilizations collapse.

[1286] You can go visit ancient Rome.

[1287] You can look around, you can see the Coliseum, they're not there anymore.

[1288] Those people are gone, right?

[1289] The people that built that.

[1290] That's just going to happen.

[1291] It's going to happen to us, too.

[1292] And it's going to happen to us biologically, too.

[1293] So there's this constant fear of so many different things that we have that we carry around with us all the time as you hold the day of the dead skull.

[1294] So, you know, okay.

[1295] I don't think it's healthy.

[1296] I don't think it's healthy to live your life embracing that.

[1297] I think you've got to be aware of it.

[1298] But you've got to live in the moment.

[1299] As stupid and corny as that sounds.

[1300] That's the only way.

[1301] Otherwise, you're going to be freaking out from anxiety.

[1302] Yeah.

[1303] If you don't, if you can't just live in the moment, you're always going to have too much anxiety.

[1304] In my experience, with me, at least.

[1305] That's what these people who talk about radioactive waste.

[1306] They're thinking, like, yeah, 10 ,000 years ahead.

[1307] And even then, it's the radioactive isotope just decays and decays.

[1308] Well, not only that.

[1309] Like, if they really do have technology currently available, where they can convert that into batteries.

[1310] Oh, that's great.

[1311] This is 99 % it decays.

[1312] Yeah.

[1313] You can swallow the 1%.

[1314] Right.

[1315] You can.

[1316] You can swallow it?

[1317] Yeah.

[1318] Not a lot, though, right?

[1319] Don't swallow it all the time.

[1320] Well, you know, there is a certain amount of radioactive material in our bodies.

[1321] Sure.

[1322] The banana is very, is the most radioactive.

[1323] of the foods I mean you probably can find you'll probably find some other foods that are I don't know what foods are radioactive I know what airplane travel is banana yeah you want to check that out James I bet rocks are aren't they like rocks yeah sure yeah uh banana contains about 450 milligrams of potassium and when eaten exposes the consumer to about 0 .01 m rem due to its K -40 content.

[1324] A chest x -ray delivers 10 M -R -E -M.

[1325] So there you go.

[1326] Yeah.

[1327] Interesting.

[1328] So it's the tiniest amount.

[1329] Yeah.

[1330] You need 100 bananas to get there.

[1331] You need 100 bananas to get to that one?

[1332] Oh, 0 .1?

[1333] Okay.

[1334] What about air travel?

[1335] Isn't that like getting an x -ray?

[1336] They say stewardess and pilots.

[1337] Absolutely.

[1338] Three times a level.

[1339] Yeah, are they in danger?

[1340] No, they just absorb it over time.

[1341] So their body gets...

[1342] Some people will tell you...

[1343] We're exposed to low levels of radiation when we fly.

[1344] You'd be exposed to about 0 .035...

[1345] Millie cverts, yeah.

[1346] Of cosmic radiation, if you were to fly in the United States from the east coast to the west coast, this amount of radiation is less than the amount of radiation we received from a chest x -ray.

[1347] Okay.

[1348] Less.

[1349] Interesting.

[1350] Well, that's...

[1351] Those are the most severe things, the x -rays, the dental and MRIs.

[1352] When did doctors start leaving the room when the x -ray happened?

[1353] I don't know.

[1354] Like, when did they get hip to the, you get the fuck out of here.

[1355] I'm doing this every day.

[1356] I don't know.

[1357] Well, I want to know that.

[1358] Because they must have stayed in the room for a while.

[1359] Like, I want to see this thing up close.

[1360] At the dentist office, they get really nervous.

[1361] They're like, I'm going to go around the corner.

[1362] You stay here.

[1363] Bro, it's like they're setting a bomb.

[1364] It's like they're setting a bomb.

[1365] Yeah.

[1366] when did they start doing that when you think about things like the iridium girls you know with that horrible radium girls rather the horrible well he killed he died eventually from handling radium oh right right right she look what the they started using shield how many years of it how many years of it did you do it okay the shields okay have to be around then right They were wearing a shield like a fucking Like a jowster?

[1367] Well, I mean, that's what they give you at the dentist office.

[1368] I'm trying to figure out like how to, it's not giving me a great answer on when they started doing it.

[1369] Can you go to Ramsar, M -A -R -A -M -S -A -R -A -R -A -R -A -R -A -R -A -R -R -A -R -R -A -ROM.

[1370] Just, there was something interesting here.

[1371] Ram -Sar?

[1372] Yeah, that's the radioactive, the springs that they go to.

[1373] Oh, right.

[1374] Where you were saying in this area is, okay.

[1375] Okay.

[1376] HBRAs of Ramsar.

[1377] Gamma radiation levels are up to about 20 MSVHR at waste level and a population of about 2 ,000 lives in this area.

[1378] Annual exposure levels range from about 20 to 260 MGY for people in hot areas.

[1379] And they don't seem to suffer any sort of health complications for this.

[1380] The radioactivity is due to local geology.

[1381] Underground water dissolves radium in uriniferous indigenous rock and carries it to surface through at least nine known hot springs.

[1382] These are used as spas by locals and tourists.

[1383] Yeah.

[1384] So they're getting a radioactive bath.

[1385] And the Black Beaches of Brazil.

[1386] Yeah.

[1387] You can ask for that?

[1388] Yeah, sure.

[1389] That's another one.

[1390] Similar sort of a situation, right?

[1391] Yeah.

[1392] Less radio.

[1393] Can you run Black Beaches?

[1394] Yeah, he's doing it.

[1395] Brazil.

[1396] He's just trying to find some good footage of it.

[1397] Some people could see what it looks like.

[1398] It's half.

[1399] I don't know, halfish of what the other one just was.

[1400] But I don't know the comparison.

[1401] Okay, so halfish, so 170 MSV every year.

[1402] Hmm.

[1403] Interesting.

[1404] It's a radioactive beach.

[1405] That's a movie.

[1406] Isn't that a movie?

[1407] Yeah, it is.

[1408] Old?

[1409] Old or older?

[1410] It's an M -night Shaman movie.

[1411] Oh, that just came out, yeah.

[1412] Yeah, I just watched it.

[1413] Pretty good.

[1414] It's one of them movies, you know.

[1415] What's called Old?

[1416] Yeah.

[1417] That's what it's about, yeah.

[1418] But in that movie, it's not so good.

[1419] I mean, I don't want to give a spoiler a little bit away, but...

[1420] Yeah.

[1421] So the concern that people have about radiation, about...

[1422] about overblown and exaggerated and exaggerated and now that you put together this documentary what's next like how else do you kind of get this message now we're going everywhere i mean we went to all the harvard we went to MIT we're going to how is it being received very well by people who know yeah it's i can't tell you we haven't we're going june 6 which is next week June 6th, we're going wide with the digital.

[1423] We'll be on iTunes, Amazon, Google Play.

[1424] As that's as, it's not a Netflix, wouldn't take it.

[1425] Really?

[1426] That's why we have to struggle with this thing.

[1427] We have to get the word out.

[1428] And we have a great foreign in Korea.

[1429] I think I have just contributed to a sale.

[1430] I was just there.

[1431] Why do you think Netflix wouldn't take this?

[1432] Because it's controversial.

[1433] And then, you know, it's the same.

[1434] But they have a lot of controversial stuff on that.

[1435] And why are they scared of that?

[1436] Even game changers is controversial.

[1437] Well, okay.

[1438] Why do you think?

[1439] I have to ask you.

[1440] I don't know.

[1441] That's why I'm asking you.

[1442] Well, that's the problem.

[1443] It just doesn't seem like, you never know why they turned down.

[1444] The documentary is brilliant.

[1445] And I can't imagine why anybody would not want this to get out.

[1446] Untold history.

[1447] They turned down Putin interviews, you know.

[1448] Why?

[1449] You know, it's just every time I go into an area.

[1450] Is it a business decision?

[1451] I mean, what is that decision?

[1452] It can't.

[1453] Untold history is also fantastic.

[1454] What is that decision based on?

[1455] Is it controversy?

[1456] Are they trying to avoid a certain kind of political controversy?

[1457] That's my fate.

[1458] Is that what it is?

[1459] Yeah, I don't know.

[1460] It's a bummer, though, isn't it?

[1461] Yeah, it's a bummer.

[1462] So, but anyway, we'll get out this way and we're going to go.

[1463] We'll go.

[1464] We just keep going around the world.

[1465] I'm going to England to do a, to address.

[1466] the Royal Institution of something or other and scientists.

[1467] It's going to be available on iTunes.

[1468] It's also going to be available on Amazon Prime Video.

[1469] Google Play.

[1470] Google Play.

[1471] And really, ladies and gentlemen, I can't urge you enough.

[1472] Go watch it.

[1473] Watch it and take in the information because it's pretty stunning.

[1474] And it's really well put together.

[1475] And the fact that it's a difficult message to get out there is kind of disheartening because really it does have hope.

[1476] It's a hopeful film.

[1477] It's a film that's like, hey, wake up.

[1478] We've got a real solution.

[1479] I wanted to make it hopeful at the end.

[1480] And it has, I think, a very uplifting ending because it can be done.

[1481] And why we behave like, we can't hide from this.

[1482] Right.

[1483] We have to be like Hyman Rickover, that kind of attitude.

[1484] Go forward and can do.

[1485] What kind of resistance have you received from people when you're bringing this film out?

[1486] Have there been any?

[1487] No, I'll tell you exactly.

[1488] I mean, we went to early, we went to Venice Film Festival and, you know, I could feel that there was fear about it, you know, fear about it, screening it.

[1489] Then, you know, you send it to the U .S. festivals, like Telluride and Sundance and those ones.

[1490] And one lady who runs one of these festivals told my age, and she says, you know, it's a great movie and I hate it.

[1491] I don't want to run it.

[1492] That sort of kind of strange attitude.

[1493] It's just crazy.

[1494] Yeah, it's like no one's going to create.

[1495] controversy, but I just don't want anything to do with it.

[1496] So she might be from the 70s, that generation.

[1497] She's, you know, listen to Ralph Nader.

[1498] She's terrified.

[1499] She doesn't want, I don't know.

[1500] Well, it's one of those things.

[1501] I, in growing up with the fear of Three Mile Island and Chernobyl, I was terrified of nuclear power.

[1502] I was glad when they stopped using it.

[1503] When I heard they were still using it, I was like, that's terrible.

[1504] Why would they use nuclear power?

[1505] Because I didn't know.

[1506] I had no politically correct.

[1507] Right.

[1508] Well, it was just this message, and again, it's a great plot line for film.

[1509] Yeah.

[1510] I wish I could do it as a fiction, but I don't know how.

[1511] Maybe I can come.

[1512] Someone, one of your customers.

[1513] How could you do it as a fiction?

[1514] I feel like you could.

[1515] I'm sure.

[1516] It's true.

[1517] It would happen.

[1518] You'd have to figure out some way where it's significant that it happens in a two.

[1519] two -hour film, something that's going to take place over the next, like, five, ten years of construction of these things.

[1520] Well, the problem is you get into a female scientist, saves the world kind of scenario, you know, that doesn't, it gets to be, you know, the lone scientist.

[1521] Wolkism and shit.

[1522] Yeah.

[1523] That's what happens today, right?

[1524] Yeah.

[1525] Yeah, it's very strange.

[1526] The guy who made Big Short, he was very talented, Adam McKay.

[1527] And he did that film with Starcast about, he thinks the world is going to end in six years, as he told me, you know.

[1528] Really, he thinks there's a definite date.

[1529] You know, there are a lot of strange theories out there.

[1530] You saw the film, what I'm talking about?

[1531] No. DiCaprio Streep was in it.

[1532] What movie is this?

[1533] What is it called?

[1534] I don't think I saw it.

[1535] Adam McKay, last film?

[1536] Yes, you saw it.

[1537] I bet I didn't.

[1538] I have terrible taste.

[1539] But it was bogus in the sense that it was about an asteroid or something.

[1540] Don't look up.

[1541] Don't look up is what it was called.

[1542] Don't look up.

[1543] Oh, I didn't watch that.

[1544] that.

[1545] I heard it was good though.

[1546] It's about an asteroid?

[1547] Yeah.

[1548] Yeah.

[1549] It's not an depending problem coming.

[1550] I heard it was great.

[1551] Well, but I didn't watch it.

[1552] Why not?

[1553] I just didn't have the time.

[1554] I just other things were more interesting to me. There's water in this thing too, if you'd like.

[1555] Oh, yeah.

[1556] And there's coffee as well.

[1557] Yeah.

[1558] Not that it wasn't interesting.

[1559] I just never, you know, it's like there's some, it's really just a abundance of choices.

[1560] There's so much to watch.

[1561] Like, I definitely want to watch it, and I was going to get around to it eventually, but I don't watch that much stuff.

[1562] I'm too busy, so I don't have the time to, like, if I'm going to do that, it's like once a week, twice a week, so it's really hard to catch up.

[1563] Do you see the last six game?

[1564] I did not, no. You did not?

[1565] I generally don't watch basketball.

[1566] But it gets exciting in the...

[1567] It is very exciting.

[1568] When I do watch it, I love basketball.

[1569] I love any athletic events.

[1570] I love watching people compete.

[1571] It's exciting.

[1572] It's fun.

[1573] I enjoy it a lot.

[1574] It's just I can only watch, for the amount of time that I have and the interest that I have, I can only really watch one sport.

[1575] Which is judicious or something?

[1576] Martial arts.

[1577] Martial arts.

[1578] Yeah, so that's really, it's combat sports.

[1579] It's the only sport that I could really watch the regular basis.

[1580] Which one is that?

[1581] U .S. That's UFC.

[1582] That's boxing, wrestling, that's everything.

[1583] I concentrate on combat sports.

[1584] Are you going to watch the seventh game?

[1585] which is on Monday night tonight.

[1586] I do not know.

[1587] You should.

[1588] I may force myself to watch it now.

[1589] It's a great story, you know.

[1590] That was a great story?

[1591] Tell me the story.

[1592] Because what you're going to call on today?

[1593] Jamie thinks it's so funny.

[1594] I know how much we have to catch you up, Joe, to find out what's going on tonight in game seven.

[1595] There's a whole lot of story.

[1596] One team is up three nothing.

[1597] Which team?

[1598] Miami Heat.

[1599] They were up three nothing.

[1600] Three nothing.

[1601] And the other team, Boston Celtics, they've been around forever.

[1602] They came back.

[1603] They won the last three games.

[1604] games by their skin of the teeth.

[1605] Oh, boy.

[1606] Here we are.

[1607] 150 teams have tried.

[1608] So this is the first time anybody's got to 3 -0 and one up coming back?

[1609] It's happened that they've gotten back to the seventh game four times, but only one time like the last 30 years.

[1610] Wow.

[1611] So the question to meet to a sports fan would be, what's the outcome?

[1612] Is it going to work for the underdog now?

[1613] No, I'm excited.

[1614] Or does he one who was, the original underdog was Miami?

[1615] I wasn't excited until now.

[1616] No, I'm excited.

[1617] Celtics have been terrific team.

[1618] have great experience, and here they were down and they've come back.

[1619] So what is the, what is the outcome?

[1620] Will the gods intervene?

[1621] The Trojans or the, the, the Trojans or the Greeks?

[1622] I mean, you kind of have to know, it's a battle, you know.

[1623] Well, that's why things of chance are so fascinating.

[1624] Yeah.

[1625] That's why boxing is so fascinating.

[1626] So did you watch the, uh, um, Devin Haney, uh, Vesila Lomachenko fight?

[1627] No, I missed it.

[1628] It was, uh, this insane fight.

[1629] And Lomachenko, who is the older guy, he's about 35 years old, just served in Ukraine.

[1630] He's a Ukrainian, and he served protecting his country for like a year.

[1631] Took a year off of boxing and then came back and had this insane fight with Devin Haney.

[1632] It was insane.

[1633] It was so good.

[1634] It was just this crazy back and forth fight that most people thought, or a lot of people rather thought Lomachenko should have got the decision, and he didn't get the decision.

[1635] It's very unfortunate when stuff like that happens too because then people don't appreciate how good Devin Haney's performance was because all they're thinking about is Lomachenko should have won.

[1636] But Devin Haney fought amazing, too.

[1637] It was a very good fight.

[1638] It was a really, really top high -end fight.

[1639] Like the consequences of that, going into a fight like that, when you're watching something like that, like anything can happen.

[1640] It's such a wild risk that you're going to do this for a living and you're going to get to the pinnacle of the world champion, The greatest two 135 -pound fighters alive, and they go to war in front of the world.

[1641] And watching something like that, to me, it's so overwhelming.

[1642] There's so much, I'm so interested in it that I don't have really time for the sports.

[1643] What about dating?

[1644] Do you date?

[1645] No, I'm married.

[1646] Oh, you're married?

[1647] I didn't know.

[1648] Do you have time for you?

[1649] Yes.

[1650] I have plenty of time.

[1651] I have time for stuff, man, but I have to be smart about what I do and I can't get too involved in too many different things because I get obsessed with them.

[1652] I don't want to be watching all the basketball games.

[1653] That's like if you think about how many hours a week it is if you have basketball, football, baseball, all these different things you're watching as well.

[1654] Like, oh, there's no time left.

[1655] Where's your time coming from?

[1656] There's no way.

[1657] Right.

[1658] So even though I think it's very enjoyable, I would enjoy it very much.

[1659] I just stay away because I just can't get involved in too many different things.

[1660] Well, I relax sometimes with idle time.

[1661] I let myself, okay, I'm off, I'm off, I'm off.

[1662] That's a good move.

[1663] And I just enjoy watching old movies, which have nothing to do with the world today, which is more like a fantasy life.

[1664] I love that.

[1665] I love fantasy.

[1666] We'll spend a lot of time in it, I guess.

[1667] Yeah, it's good to do.

[1668] It's good to be bored, too.

[1669] It's good to just sit around.

[1670] It's good to be idle.

[1671] It's good to sit around and just be a little.

[1672] alone with your thoughts sometimes.

[1673] I know.

[1674] I think we're so constantly being inundated with other people's thoughts.

[1675] It's like, this is part of the thing that happens to, with social media as well.

[1676] I think it's also just the way people behave on social media is an after effect of it, is that you're just constantly inundated with people's opinions and thoughts on things, because you're always looking at something.

[1677] You're always looking at a television, you're always looking at a phone, you're always listening to music, you're always listening to people talk.

[1678] There's always someone giving you input always all this time except when you're asleep except when you're asleep do you sleep yes normal hours yeah i get seven a night i like seven a night eight a night if i'm working out really hard but seven and nine is good yeah seven a night seems to be function eight is ideal right but seven is like i can i can perform pretty well at seven very good but if i'm under seven i get dumber by the hour like whatever the hour is like if like five hours i'm dumber than six four hours, I'm dumber than five.

[1679] You certainly haven't been dumbed today.

[1680] You've been pretty sharp.

[1681] Thank you very much.

[1682] I got some sleep.

[1683] On that note, I think I should get out of here.

[1684] Oliver, you're a brilliant person, and I appreciate you very much, and it's always a pleasure to talk to you.

[1685] And I think your work is amazing, both your fiction films and these documentaries.

[1686] And this one that you have right now, nuclear now, I think it's one of the most important ones that I've ever watched, because I think you and this film and just the conversations about it can counter this sort of destructive narrative that people have about that.

[1687] I hope so.

[1688] Thank you, John.

[1689] I appreciate it very much.

[1690] Thank you.

[1691] My pleasure.

[1692] Thank you.

[1693] All right.

[1694] Bye, everybody.